Re: How can I create new Objectclasses?

[Hanasaki <hanasaki@microlink.net>]

Can someone point me to a good source for OID backround and ASN.1 ... which I
believe is linked to OID?

TIA

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:

> At 09:38 PM 5/26/99 -0500, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> >Hi,
> >OIDs are technically required by LDAP,
> >but in my experience most LDAP
> >servers let you get by without them (I'm not sure how openLDAP does it,
> >since I don't have much experience extending its schema).
>
> OpenLDAP 1.x is LDAPv2 which doesn't rely on OIDs.
>
> >If you intend to share your schema outside of your own network, you'll need
> >to get an OID because that's what gurantees each object class and attribute
> >is unique.
>
> For OpenLDAP 2.x (LDAPv3), you'll need OIDs to any item you invent.
>
> For discussions concerning OpenLDAP LDAPv3 development, please
> see our -devel mailing list.
>
> Kurt